• Elon Musk becomes Sole Director of Twitter after firing entire Board

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    Elon Musk becomes Sole Director of Twitter after firing entire Board

    Musk fired the company's top executives immediately after purchasing it for $44 billion, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and policy chief Vijaya Gadde.

    Digital Desk: Elon
    Musk, Twitter's new 'chief twit,' has fired the microblogging platform's entire
    board and is now the social media giant's sole director. This comes just hours
    after Musk denied a report that the company was planning mass layoffs before
    November 1.



    As a result of the new
    owner's decision, all previous members of Twitter's board of directors are no
    longer directors.



    Earlier in the day, a
    report stated that Musk wishes to avoid paying stock grants to fired employees,
    which is why the November 1 deadline was set.



    Musk fired the company's
    top executives immediately after purchasing it for $44 billion, including CEO
    Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and policy chief Vijaya Gadde.



    The Tesla CEO has also
    reportedly asked a team to redesign the site's verification process by November
    7, or they will be fired.



    According to a separate
    report, Musk may fire 75% of Twitter's employees, reducing the company's
    headcount from 7,500 to 2,000. Although the billionaire has denied this,
    speculation about layoffs continues to be one-sided, as publications such as
    The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Verge reported on the matter
    based on internal documents and direct information from Twitter employees.